![]() Hauserman, Pam Beightol and Joan Leubbers of the Ocklawaha Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution present the Quilt of Valor to Major Jack Hallett. And there again, it was an accident.”ī.J. "The second time I was in a different type of airplane, I was in a P47, I was so low, all I could do when I got hit was put the nose between two trees and let the trees take the beating. So that crash was considered being shot down and destroyed the airplane, but I was able to continue flying. What they didn’t show was that I didn’t have a wheel on my right strut. Q: Getting shot down once seems almost certainly fatal, but twice? Is surviving that experience mostly luck or is it not necessarily as bad as it sounds?Ī: “The first time I got back to the field and when I dropped my gear my indicators showed I had three down and locked. Instead of pulling up, we stayed in the Moselle River, so we escaped all the fire, and we didn’t lose one guy. I figured there was no way we’d be missed, but we did. "But it was our turn to go down, so we went. And even if you could move a quarter mile an hour you’d get hit, because of all the lead in the air. We were a flight of four, flying to cover, and I watched the other guys go in to dive bomb the marshaling yard. "As we went down to attack the marshaling yards, I remember the sky was full of lead.
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